Ar-Den is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Ar-Den

WRENN ID
eternal-portal-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Ar-Den, 226, Chapel Lane, Thornham Parva, IP23 8EU
OS grid reference
TM 104 731
Coordinates
52.31637, 1.08598
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house known as Ar-Den, built in the early 18th century and later extended and altered in the 19th century. It has a timber frame that is plastered and features a thatched roof. The house originally consists of two small cells with an end stack, and an additional bay has been added to the right. It is one storey high with an attic and has a one-storey addition.

The entrance is located to the right of the original centre and features a boarded architraved door. Flanking the entrance are three-light glazing bar casements with hoodboards, and there is a similar dormer above the entrance with a thatched gabled head. The added kitchen bay to the right has a brick base and a step up to another boarded architraved door. The originally external stack to the right is now incorporated into the slightly lower later bay. The left gable end has a pentice board, and there is an attic three-light casement, along with exposed plates and purlins.

At the rear, there is a boarded door opposite the front door, along with two and three-light glazing bar casements that also have hoodboards. Behind the added bay, there is a low 19th-century clay lump pantiled addition with a stable door on the outer elevation.

Inside, the frame of small scantling is mostly concealed, but there is a chamfered axial binding beam. The interior features a 19th-century reeded fireplace, a side purlin roof, and an ogee stop chamfered cross axial binding beam in the added bay.

Local climate

Ar-Den sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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